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Josephine Baker is best known as the African-American performer and dancer who took Paris by storm in the 1920s with her own takes on the Charleston and the Black Bottom, performed in an iconic banana skirt. But Baker, who became a French citizen, shouldn't be reduced to this stereotypical image. She starred in numerous films, opened her own clubs, and as a member of France's counterintelligence agency Deuxième Bureau during World War II, proved a talented spy and resis ...